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Show We The Women By Ruth Millett Are you making a baby sitter out of Grandma? Judging from the number of letters let-ters I've had from older women during the past few years, a lot of young married couples would have to answer "yes" to that question. quest-ion. Here is a part of a typical letter: let-ter: "My son and his wife have a lot of friends and like to go out and against my will, I've been elected as chief baby sitter. Sometimes they telephone ahead and ask me if I'll keep the children chil-dren for a week-end or get together to-gether with a crowd of their friends for an evening. But often they just drive by and say airly, 'How about keeping the kids for us?' and I'm stuck. I don't like to refuse them, but since they have money for recreation recreat-ion it seems to me they should put some of it aside to pay a baby sitter when they want to go out, instead of imposing on me." Grandma Is Right The fed-up Grandmother is right, of course, o young couple has a right to make an unwilling baby sitter out of Grandma. When a baby sitter is needed, Grandma seems to be the number One candidate. She doosn'e charge by the hour, with extra rates after midnight. What Grandma ought to do, of course, is to announce at the birth of her first grandchild: "I'm delighted de-lighted to be a Grandmother, but I don't ever intend to become a baby sitter." I |